Oil-arrester.



J. B. TYLER.

OIL ARRESTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

'\ WI'TNESSES qyJ/V ENTOR 3 A110 nay UNITE JAMES E. TYLER, OF DALIVILLE, VIRGINIA.

OIL-ARBESTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May '21, 1912. Serial No. 698,735.

Patented Feb. 18,1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. TYLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in county of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Arresters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in oil arresters, and the object is to provide means for trappin superfluous or waste oil from shaftlng hanger-boxes and preventing it from following the shafting, and catching it in a drip-pan or box, thus preventing it from dripping from the hanger-boxes or shafting.

With this object in View, my invention consists in an inverted hood-shaped pan or box, the ends of which are cut away and rounded to fit the under side of the shafting and provided with inwardly-projecting springsuspended wings which bear yieldingly upon the shaftin from beneath, thereby removing the oil an accumulation so that it is can ht in the pan or box and is prevented Erom following the shafting and dripping to the floor.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction which will be hcreinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanyin drawings :Figure 1 is a view in side e ev tion, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional vie v, Fig. 3 is a top plan View, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the longitudinal center. Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of one of the wings.

A represents the drip-pan, it being preferablv made of sheet-metal and'ap roximatel V-shaped in side elevation, U=s aped in end ele'vation, and diamond-shaped in top plan view as the different figures indicate. At the ends it is cut awa and rounded as at 1, 1, to fit and embrace t e lower side of the shafting. Straps 2, 2 are provided as a means for suspending the drip-pan from the sha'fting hanger-boxes, they crossing over to embrace the hanger from either side, as indicated in the drawings. Within the ends of the pan and projecting inwardly therefrom are the springs 3, 3, and on the free ends of these springs are placed the V-shaped wings 4, 4, which straddle and em brace the lower side of the shafting, and. as the latter turns between said wings they. have the, effect of removing the oil and accumulation thereon at a point sufficiently toward the center of the pan to insure the oil falling into the latter, and preventing its working along the shafting outside of the pan. By reason of the spring-supports of the wings, the latter yieldingly but constantly. follow the surface of the shafting,

thus precluding thepossibility of any of the oil, or enough of the oil to drip, passing out- Wardly beyond them.

All features are connected withthe pan itself, and when the pan is applied and properly adjusted thewings fall yieldingly into place to perform their functions, and a the shape of the pan is such that this condition is absolutely assured.

More or less slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departure from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to be limited to the exact construct-ion herein set forth, but:

Having fully described .my invention,

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An oil arrester comprising a pan recess'ed at its ends to fit the shafting alnd carryin inwardlyro'ectin ieldin supported wings whit-h engag e tlih shaft iri g and revent oil from following the latter beyon the ends of the pan.

2. An oil arrester comprising a V-shaped pan, the ends of which taper and are rovided with curved notches to fit the shaftlng means for holding the an with its notche ends in contact with tie lower side of the shaftin wings projecting inwardly within the en s of the pan, and springs for yieldingly supporting said wings and holding them yieldingly in contact with the shafting.

Q I oeepeo 3. An oil arrester comprising a pan havadjusted into position beneath the shaft and ing fastening means at its top, whereby to secured to the hanger. 10 secure it to a hanger, and provided at oppo- In testimony whereof I aifix my signature, site points with inward1y-pr0jecting springs, in the presence of two witnesses.

said springs having upwardly-extending JAMES E. TYLER. \l-shape wings at their inner ends which Witnesses:

yieldingly engage the lower surface of the GEO. L. FnnenssoN,

shaft as thepan is raised from beneath and W. W. GILBIN 

